Smyrna times., 1887-12-21
SMYRNA and Vicinity.

This is a nice time of the year to call
and settle with the printer
c. H. REGISTER & Co. butcher moth
ng but the best fatted, young animals.T
RICHARD BROWN has substituted
glass for the canvass curtains of his
railroad hack.
c. H. REGISTER & Co. will fill your
order for meat at any time, day or
night, Sunday excepted.
The Smyrna Laundry has reopened
with a first class laundryman. See ad-
next week.
THE Episcopal and Methodist
churches will be dressed in evergreen
for the Christmas services.
J. T. COLEMAN, of Wilmington, has
taken the blacksmith shop, corner of |
Delaware and Commerce streets.
SPECIAL inducements offered to all |
who insure property from date to Jan
uary 10th in any off. B. Mifiin's Cost |
GEO. w. GORDON is supplied as US
ual with a full stock of Christmas |
goods, as will be seen by his advertise
ment.
RICHARD Browns hack will meet |
the midnight train during the holidays. |
Orders can be left with him or at the
Smyrna House.
KENToN and Downs Chapel are
taking the lead of all the other towns
in establishing hOurishing lyceums
and debating societies.
THE most realistic evidence to the
children of Christmas being near at
hand are the evergreen trees that have
been put on the market.
HIRNHEDIER's Christmas announce
ment will be found on our first page.
He believes in something to wear as
well as something to eat.
OUR young readers will find a story
on the first page written by a former
well known typo of the TINES office,
now residing in New York.
CALENDARS for 1883 free and insu-
rance at the lowest rates at J. B. Milf
films office, on Commerce street, Smyr.
ma, Del.
GEORGE B. MONEY, of Delaware
City, has been visiting New York, in
order to induce several capitalists to
purchase the Bombay Hook property.
THE snowy advertisement of Straw
bridge s. Clothiers will be found on our
fourth page giving their holiday an
nOuncement where to buy Christmas
gifts.
GEO. NJ. STEVENSON has the most
Hastily arranged display of cOnfections
to be found in the market, including a
good stock of the celebrated Whitman
candy.
CHARLEY SMITH, a wel-known
Smyrna character for the past two gen.
eratiOns, died last week at the Aims
house. He was nearing his three-score
and ten.
A LITTLE late in opening my Holiday
Goods, but not too late to make the
finest display 1 have ever made, and
prices still lower than ever. Yours
truly, J. W. Denney, Druggist. I
The annual meeting of the Ladies
Benevolent Society, will meet Tuesday
evening, December 9th, at the resi-
dence Of Mrs. w. w. Tschudy. A
large attendance is requested.
FIREl fire fire! This cry should be
a warning to persons who neglect the
duty of insuring their property. Do
not put off insuring, but call at once on
J. B. Mifflin. T
SEVERAL couple went up to Will
mington on Monday evening to hear
Emmett in Fritz" and two of our
young men were in the Chestnut street
theatre panic, Philadelphia, the same
night.
THE farmers of the western part of
Kenton Hundred are greatly annoyed
at the depredations of a poultry thief.
They feel pretty we'll satisfied as to the
identity Of the Jail bird, but have not
been fully able yet to identify him.
RICE & DIsCH, commission mer-
chants 325 North Water street, Phila-
delphia, we'll known to our farming
community and whose advertisement
has appeared stately in the TIMES,
wish to be remembered by those ship
ping poultry.
OUR farmers who suffered from the
disastrou- rains to their peach crops
last Summer are on the other hand
reaping the advantages from the effects
of a disastrous drought to the corn
crop in the West. Thus follows the
law Of compensation.
REV. L. c. Brown, of Durlach, Ian
caster county, Pa, will preach in the
Presbyterian church next Sunday.
Rev. VIM. V. Louderbough filed the
pulpit last Sunday; a number of his
former young associates paid him the
compliment Of their presence.
AN incident of last week among the
young people was a hop in the opera
house at the close of DR.. Masden's lee
ture before the Institute on Friday
evening. The dancers included ten or
a dozen couples of our young ladies
and gentlemen, including one or two
teachers.
This impression of our paper will be
issued in the midst of preparations to
celebrate the great holiday Of Christ.
endom. BY the time it appears again
the festivities will be virtually over
Our readers one and sll have the heart
lest wish of the TIMES for a Merry
Christmas.
Do you want safe, sure and sound
Company to insure your property in
and the lowest rates2 If so call on J
B. MifiiE, who represents and is agent
for the largest and the best. 4
THE teachers who hadn't persona
friends in Smyrna were provided fol
at the Delaware House, and the whole
body Of students are unit, it Is said
in expressing their sincerest thanks {,
Proprietor Fell and his assistants 70
their attention in making the teachers
stay pleasant one.
The steamer Iygert, which was dui
here about eleven o'clock on SATURDAY.
night found the falling snow SO thici
as to obscure the range lights, so the,
took shelter under a pier off Whining
ton about six o'clock, and remainet
until the next morning. The light a
the mouth Of Christiana creek, only
few hundreds yards off could not b
seen. The officers Of the boat say ex
cept the last three Saturday nights
they have not on account Of snow o
fog, for two years lost a tide.